Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:39:47 -0800 From: Deepwell Internet <freebsd@deepwell.com> To: "Sumbry][" <sumbry@ahnet.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FrontPage questions Message-ID: <4.1.19990118123806.009214e0@mail1.dcomm.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.00.9901181110060.4577-100000@control.ahnet.net> References: <199901181332.IAA26197@bilver.magicnet.net>
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>From time to time we get customers who want to use some Microsoft SQL or access database in a Frontpage Web. Is there ANY way of dealing with this under the Unix FPE, or do I just have to turn all of those customers elsewhere. At 11:17 AM 1/18/99 -0800, you wrote: >> Doesn't it really depend on how many customers, real or pontential, >> want this. If it's only a few then is it worth allocating your >> resources to cover them, or point the customer to someone else. >> >> Not every customer is worth having. However once you commit to >> them you have to treat them as above, otherwise they go elsewhere >> and tell people how bad you are. > >Well, unfortunately, if you are web hosting company, then a >*large* percentage of your customers are going to want Microsoft Frontpage >Extensions support. There's no way that you can web host in this day, and >not have FP extensions support. > >This isn't going to get any better either. W/the impending release of >Office 2000, suddenly you going to convert every Microsoft Office user who >isn't already using Frontpage into a Frontpage user (Frontpage 2000 will be >bundled w/Office 2000). And w/practically anyone who has a computer using >Office, well... Frontpage isn't going to go away. > > >----- >Sumbry][ | Affinity Hosting | http://affinity.net | sumbry@affinity.net >"Run, run, fast as ya can, ya can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man." > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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